USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Clip Mine
Source Corroborated Fluorine-Fluorite Underground 5 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Fluorine-Fluorite
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Silver Clip
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Pb-Ag-V-Fe-Mn-Sr-Baryte-Fluorspar-Cu (Cl-Br) mine located in the center of sec. 25, T3S, R23W, at the former mining town of Clip, 5 miles North of the former mining town of Silent, and 28 miles N of Yuma, on BLM-administered land. …
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Hidden Valley , 1965
- Shaft : Hidden Valley , 1965
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- United Silver Mines Of Yuma · Historical operator · 1929
Commodities & minerals
- Fluorine-Fluorite · primary
- Iron
- Lead
- Manganese
- Strontium
- Vanadium
- Barium-Barite
- Silver
- Copper
- Halite
Reported minerals
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Celestine
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Barite (Barytes)
- commodity:Copper
View all 25 reported minerals
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Celestine
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Barite (Barytes)
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Strontium
- commodity:Vanadium
- Dumortierite
- Fluorite
- Hematite
- Kyanite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Manganese-bearing Calcite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Vanadinite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 3363
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (25)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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